Vreemdeling in het woud: te voet door Borneo
by:
Eric Hansen (author)
Ingrid Toth (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9027419531
Publish date: 1988
Publisher: Het Spectrum
Pages no: 260
Edition language: Dutch
Category:
Adventure,
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Cultural,
Environment,
Asia,
Biography Memoir,
Anthropology
In 1982, Eric Hansen - who must have then been no more than 27 or 28 (?) - walked (that's right.... walked) across and through the tropical rainforests of Borneo... sometimes with native guides, but sometimes by himself. He spent months in the rainforest. Then, when he was 50 miles from from the ea...
You don't find many current travel writers heading off to the tropical rain forest of Borneo. I'm still not really sure why Hansen headed there. He seemed to like this place, despite deadly snakes, really inadequate toilet facilities, awful food (he mentions eating rotten fish many times), and scary...